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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1902
Page
2
A 1908 School Journal report from a public school of about 500 pupils compared twenty nonsmokers with twenty cigarette fiends. Observers tracked ten teachers over months, ages ten to seventeen, showing most boys smoked and framed lower performance and morality versus girls.
The article questions why 1 179 cattle and 1 308 sheep were sent to England from Portland, Maine, amid high U.S. meat prices. It contrasts foreign shipments with claims packers make about aiding American consumers and notes rising immigration and wealth figures from 1901–1902. It ends with a grim cautionary joke about using dynamite on a dog’s tail.
A heritage poem by Mrs. Field of Providence welcomes visitors to Marlboro gatherings in Mont Vernon New Hampshire. The piece extols home ties friendship and reunion, celebrating old home week and affectionate welcomes for Marlboro guests and summer residents.
Verne Churchill the road artist who circled the globe starting New Year 1901 in twenty months arrived in New York aboard the Majestic two days early. He began with a nickel and earned much of his travel by drawing pictures for payments in many countries.
Lawrence dispatch reports University of Kansas scholars back curator H. F. Martin with a glacial era find. A buffalo bones in western Kansas museum rock imbedded, containing a flint arrow bead of expert craft, supports the theory of early human habitation in North America.
James O. Lyman, Waterbury Conn, superintendent of Standard Electric Time, has invented a new electric signal clock to operate bells and signals on factories, schools or other buildings. A Medical Times writer urges aluminium tablets as substitutes for paper bank bills on sanitary grounds.
Commentary suggests mixed aims amid conflict as authorities report capturing a hostile fleet off the New England coast. The piece notes revolutionary sentiment among South Americans and questions whether glory can be evenly earned.
William Gardner, an elderly farm worker for James, fell from a trolley car Friday evening on the road from the western to Hudson. He cut an arm and suffered bruises but was not seriously injured after stepping off as the car slowed. Conductor Joseph Cote assisted, and local reports cite Gardner asking the conductor to stop the car.
John R. McCrillis returned from the New Hampshire Civil War veterans reunion at The Weirs where President Theodore Roosevelt spoke. McCrillis sat on the platform and sold two bouquets for 1.00 each, with all proceeds going to the veterans fund.
City Marshal F. A. Pope and officers J. L. Calahan and B. T. Mitchell raided Foley’s house at South and Beach streets Friday evening. They recovered 16 gallons of ale in two barrels 23 bottles of gin and whisky.
Fred Nedreau fell from a bicycle when the fork broke near Main Street Thursday evening. He sustained facial and body bruises but avoided serious injury and received medical care at Burke's drug store.
Members of the Bartenders' Union surprised John H. Lynch at his Rice Street home Friday evening with a gift of a music rack and a piano scarf after he recently bought a piano. M. J. Lynch spoke, Lynch responded, and A. M. McNally demonstrated the instrument with others providing violin and trap. The gathering featured vocal and instrumental performances and refreshments followed into the late hours.
Deputy acting comptroller T. P. Kane grants First National Bank the right to extend its corporate existence for 20 years, with the extension not expiring until August 23, 1922, marking the bank’s first such application.
William McNally secretary of the A O H Widow's and Orphans' land spoke in support of the organization at Seoroof Ed A Bres' aux. H Mc Namee of Cambridge delivered an address among those present.
John Brewin from the Metropolitan Water commission visits relatives in Marlboro while George Houghton travels to Rumford for a visit with Mrs Houghton. Residents welcome rounded curbing at Main and Prospect streets. Ashland contractor J H H finishes stone work on the new railway station. Peter Kenney of Worcester to start underpinning work.
Concord churches list schedules for three congregations. Trinitarian Congregational led by Rev. George A. Tewksbury holds services at 10 40 a m and 7 30 p m with Sunday school and Y P S C E. First Parish Unitarian led by Rev. Toren B Macdonald has 10 45 a m services, 7 p m Young People's Guild, noon Sunday school, and quarterly communion. Scandinavian M E Church under Rev. Charles H Johnson meets 10 30 a m and 7 30 p m with Friday close meeting.
Congregational Methodist Episcopal and St George's churches publish a list of services for the week. Rev. Chas H Washburn leads Maynard Congregational with Sunday services at 10 30 am and 6 pm, Sunday school at noon, and a Wednesday prayer meeting. St George's Episcopal notes services at 10 30 am with rector Rev Arthur Bradford Pacose away until Sept, and Holy Communion as announced. St Bridget's RC lists Sunday masses at 3 30 am and 6 16 am with Sunday school at 2 15 pm.
Readable fragments list meeting days for several groups: Foresters meet on the first and third Mondays. Companions of Forest meet on the fourth Mondays. Red Men meet on the first and third Tuesdays. A O U W meets on the second and fourth Tuesdays. Lodge No. 131 A F of F meets every Wednesday. The final line references Be 54 D por K first.
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